BioWatch, which has cost more than $1 billion so far, is designed to detect large-scale biological attacks. But Homeland Security officials say small-scale attacks are more likely to occur.
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Department planners have privately rejected a central premise of BioWatch, the nation's decade-old system for detecting biological weapons released into the air, according to government documents and testimony Tuesday at a congressional hearing.
via L.A. Times - Science http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/bLXF9Hjm0_c/la-na-biowatch-20130619,0,1573938.story
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Department planners have privately rejected a central premise of BioWatch, the nation's decade-old system for detecting biological weapons released into the air, according to government documents and testimony Tuesday at a congressional hearing.
via L.A. Times - Science http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/science/~3/bLXF9Hjm0_c/la-na-biowatch-20130619,0,1573938.story
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